Drama
- Drama is to be preformed, not read
- presents action
- through actors
- on stage
- before an audience
- Soliloquy- the act of speaking alone or to oneself
- Aside-when characters turn from the person to whom they are talking and speak directly to the audience
- Dramatic Conventions-a set of rules which the participant or audience and actor are both engaged in, they are usually set up within the drama/play and are used throughout all drama and theater.
- Chorus-a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play
- Narrator-A narrator is, within any story (literary work, movie, play, verbal account, etc.), the person who conveys the story to the audience
- Tragedy-the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character;
- Comedy- light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- catharsis-A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions
- hamartia-tragic flaw: the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall
- melodrama-A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes
- farce- comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
- Non realistic drama- Drama that, in content, presentation, or both, departs markedly from fidelity to the outward appearances of life
- Realistic Drama-Drama that attempts, in content and in presentation, to preserve the illusion of actual, everyday life
- Romantic comedy-light-hearted, humorous plot lines, centered on romantic ideals such as a true love able to surmount most obstacles
- Foil characters- a character who contrasts with another character
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